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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on bariatric surgery in India: An Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India survey of 1307 patients

BACKGROUND: Although safe practice guidelines were issued by the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India (OSSI) in the end of May 2020, surgeons have been in a dilemma about risk of subjecting patients to hospitalisation and bariatric surgery. This survey was conducted with the objective to e...

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Autores principales: Bhasker, Aparna Govil, Khaitan, Manish, Bindal, Vivek, Kumar, Amardeep, Rajkumar, Anirudh, Kaushal, Anshuman, Prasad, Arun, Parikh, Chirag, Sethi, Daksh, Goel, Deep, Hareendran, Deepak Thampi, Bedi, Digvijay, Jammu, Gurvinder Singh, Leo, Jayanth, Kular, Kuldeepak, Narwaria, Mahendra, Chikkachanappa, Mahesh, Motwani, Manish, Bharucha, Manoj, Ismail, Mohamed, Dukkipati, Nandkishore, Shah, Neha, Tantia, Om, Patel, Parag, Padmakumar, R., Singh, Rahul, Palaniappan, Raj, Shrivastava, Rajesh, Rajput, Ram Raksha Pal, Goel, Ramen, Wadhawan, Randeep, Garg, Rohit, Aggarwal, Sandeep, Patolia, Sanjay, Baig, Sarfaraz J., Shah, Shashank, Shivaram, H. V., Dhorepatil, Shrihari, Saggu, Sukhvinder Singh, Ugale, Surendra, Perungo, T., Soni, Vandana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8486048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34558429
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jmas.JMAS_2_21
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Although safe practice guidelines were issued by the Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society of India (OSSI) in the end of May 2020, surgeons have been in a dilemma about risk of subjecting patients to hospitalisation and bariatric surgery. This survey was conducted with the objective to evaluate the risk of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) infection in peri- and post-operative period after bariatric and metabolic surgery (BMS). METHODS: A survey with OSSI members was conducted from 20 July 2020 to 31 August 2020 in accordance with EQUATOR guidelines. Google Form was circulated to all surgeon members through E-mail and WhatsApp™. In the second phase, clinical details were captured from surgeons who reported positive cases. RESULTS: One thousand three hundred and seven BMS were reported from 1 January 2020 to 15 July 2020. Seventy-eight per cent were performed prior to 31 March 2020 and 276 were performed after 1 April 2020. Of these, 13 (0.99%) patients were reported positive for COVID-19 in the post-operative period. All suffered from a mild disease and there was no mortality. Eighty-seven positive cases were reported from patients who underwent BMS prior to 31 December 2019. Of these, 82.7% of patients had mild disease, 13.7% of patients had moderate symptoms and four patients succumbed to COVID-19. CONCLUSION: BMS may be considered as a safe treatment option for patients suffering from clinically severe obesity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due care must be taken to protect patients and healthcare workers and all procedures must be conducted in line with the safe practice guidelines.